This weekend, the city of Solingen in Nordrhein-Westfalen was slated to celebrate its 650th anniversary. Like the good Germans that they doubtless are, the Solinger proclaimed the occasion a “Festival of Diversity”. Municipal organisers had scheduled the bulk of their multicultural celebrations for today, with a separate “cultural and environmental” sub-festival bearing the theme “Life Needs Diversity”.
Alas, it never came to that. The diversity which life requires intervened:
Last night, at 9:37pm, after the opening of the festivities, an as-yet unidentified attacker of “Arab” or “southern” appearance knifed eleven people in an apparently planned attack. Witnesses say that he stabbed deliberately at the necks of his victims. He left three dead and another five seriously injured, before fleeing amid the chaos.
This video shows the aftermath:
Special operations police (the SEK) raided an apartment early this morning and arrested a 17 year-old in Solingen, but investigators soon cleared him of suspicion. Later on, police arrested a 15 year-old suspect in Düsseldorf; he is presently charged with “failing to report planned offences in connection with the attack”. Spiegel reports that the arrestee is a Kyrgyzstani refugee:
He was living in refugee centre. According to SPIEGEL information, he may have had a conversation at the Solingen festival with the alleged suspect, who is on the run. Witnesses claim to have heard the arrested man and the other man talking about a possible knife attack. The 15 year-old is therefore accused of failing to report a planned offence. According to SPIEGEL information, he refuses to make any statements.
Chief public prosecutor Markus Caspers said at a press conference at the Wuppertal police station: “According to witness statements, a previously unknown person is said to have spoken to the teenager shortly before the attack about intentions that would fit the execution of the offence.” According to the investigators, they do not yet know whether this person is the perpetrator. Two witnesses heard the conversation but did not witness the offence themselves. They have therefore contacted the police.
Police say that they cannot rule out a “terrorist-motivated offence”.
Our state media ‘Diversity Explainers’ are hard at work with preemptive attempts to confuse our pattern recognition modules. Asked if anything was known about the victim, a ZDF reporter responded that, “There are witnesses statements saying it was an Arab-looking man, whatever that’s supposed to mean.” Indeed, it is very mysterious what Arab people look like, and surely hard to know why any such Arab-looking person might be stabbing people at a municipal festival. His counterpart at Tagesschau, reporting from the crime scene, remarked that we know as yet very little about the perpetrator’s motives and that there are many possibilities. “Was this an attack that was carried out, for example, on behalf of Islamist terror? Or was this an attack that was carried out, for example, because the attacker was against foreigners?” Two equally probable possibilities, I’m sure you’ll agree.
At an autumn fair in nearby Wermelskirchen, authorities have responded to news of the Solingen attacks by forbidding merchants at their fair from selling knives. That makes total sense. Obviously, what is killing people is not the imported and to-be-celebrated diversity from the Global South, but rather these sharp objects that, for some reason, never gave us any problems before. If only there were a knife prohibition in Solingen, I’m sure stabbings never would’ve happened. This is just like how the newly established “weapons prohibition zone” in the Frankfurt Main Station prevented that dramatic shooting death there last Wednesday.
Before wading into the reaction of our wise and farsighted politicians, I asked Grok, the Twitter AI chatbot, to compose an insincere Tweet expressing sympathy for the victims of a knife attack:
Grok’s effort compares very well with the statements I found. “The attack in Solingen is a terrible event that I find very upsetting,” Chancellor Olaf Scholz tweeted this morning. “An attacker brutally killed several people… We mourn the victims and stand by their families.” Mario Voigt, head of the Thüringen CDU, offered similar words: “The terrible news of the terrorist attack in Solingen has left people… standing together in grief and sympathy… I mourn with the families and loved ones of the victims who were senselessly torn from their lives.” Ricarda Lang, co-head of the Green Party, likewise deplored the “Horrific news from Solingen, where people just wanted to celebrate and were brutally murdered. My thoughts and sympathy are with the victims and their families…” Nor could German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser deprive herself of the chance to repeat the bland and the over-said at least one more time: “We are deeply shocked by the brutal attack… We mourn for the people who were taken from life in a terrible way. My thoughts are with the families of those killed and those seriously injured.”
I could compile dozens more such statements, but that is enough. You can just see the empty eyes and the slack jaws of the people who sent out these Tweets – the people who helped fill Germany with untold thousands of violent and young foreigners, and who now have no solution whatsoever to the deep problems they have sown. When I was younger, I reacted with autistic impatience to news of terror attacks and stabbings like these; I reasoned that, statistically, they were not a significant cause of death and should be ignored. That was entirely wrong of me. These are assaults on individuals and for that reason tragic, but even more than that they are attacks on our entire civil society; they undermine that which no statistic can capture, namely our sense of security and order. Our rulers no longer consider it their responsibility to maintain such things. Instead they offer shallow, childish praise to a nebulous Diversity that is supposed to make everything better, more liberal, more pacified, more open and more compassionate, but that in fact only ever achieves the opposite of these things.
They have no ideas, no future vision, no plan and no goal. They are at the end; like zombie helmsmen, they steer the ship of state expressionlessly into the reefs, deaf to all warnings.
UPDATE: Somebody has leaked an internal police report to Welt am Sonntag. The report contains this statement:
A witness who was injured in the attack stated that the unknown suspect was ‘familiar from Solingen’ and that he was also a visitor at a local mosque. One witness reported that the suspect shouted ‘Allahu Akbar’ during the attack.
UPDATE 2: The Amaq News Agency of the Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the Solingen stabbings. They say they their “soldier” conducted the attack on a “gathering of Christians” in Solingen as revenge for Muslim victims in Palestine. Anything is possible, but I would be sceptical of this report; IS can claim responsibility for anything that’s in the news, and it’s somewhat amusing that their press office thinks the Solingen Diversity Festival was a Christian event.
Otherwise, police are raiding the local asylum centre. Things are looking bad for the state media speculation that this attack might well have been the work of some Right-winger who hates “foreigners”.
UPDATE 3: As Bild reports, the attacker has turned himself into police, a day and two hours after his assault at the Solingen Diversity Festival. He had been hiding in a yard all that time and apparently gave up. He name is Issa al Hassan; he is a 26 year-old Sunni Muslim and a Syrian asylum seeker who came to Germany in 2022. He was granted residence under “subsidiary protection” provisions, because his country is at war but he met neither the requirements for official refugee status nor for asylum.
Last night’s raid on the asylum centre, mentioned above, resulted in the arrest of a 36 year-old man and the seizure of evidence. NRW Interior Minister Herbert Reul told the press that this second suspect “was not the one we had in our sights from the beginning”. His relationship to the attack, if any, is unclear, but it is highly curious that the police now appear to have three men in custody.
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It doesn’t matter how many innocent citizens ( that obviously includes police officers ) get murdered as a result of their policies, the German government will never admit that multiculturalism and uncontrolled immigration has been an epic disaster on all fronts. But this here takes the cake and is a kind of admission, in my opinion. Given that Afghan ‘asylum seekers’ are going back to their homeland on their hols I think we can confidently say it’s no longer an unsafe country, at least not for men. But actually resorting to bribing them to leave is just next level desperation, really;
”The German traffic light coalition is considering paying “financial travel support” to asylum seekers set to be deported to Afghanistan, Bild reports. Critics question why the country would reward foreigners with no residency rights to do what they are supposed to do anyway—leave the country.
Providing rejected migrants with ‘start-up money’ for food and housing is intended to encourage them to leave, but also to help avoid legal challenges, Germany’s interior ministry said. Failed asylum seekers have in the past challenged deportation orders on grounds of being returned to abject poverty.
Programs already exist in different German states to assist rejected asylum seekers who return to their home countries voluntarily. Amounts can range from a few hundred to “several thousand euros,” Bild says—amounts that are still small compared to the cost of having the migrants remain in Germany.
Whether the proposed program would apply also to dangerous criminals under deportation orders appears unclear. A spokesman for the interior ministry told the newspaper that how to handle the payments—and who would be eligible for them—would be up to the states.
Since the Taliban took power in Afghanistan in 2021, Germany has halted deportations there. But an epidemic of knife attacks in Germany, disproportionately committed by Afghan and Syrian criminals, has led to public outrage, forcing the Scholz government to reevaluate. Other problems persist, however: different legal jurisdictions—including four higher courts—have come to different conclusions on whether deportations to Afghanistan can be legally carried out.
Last year, over 51,000 Afghans sought asylum in Germany—an increase of 41% compared to the previous year. Around 15% of the country’s first-time asylum seekers in 2023 were from Afghanistan.
Whether a lump sum of startup money will prevent migrants from fighting deportation remains to be seen. At least in the German state of Saxony, prospective deportees who resist don’t appear to have much to fear. Instructions to airport police, referenced by Apollo News, say they can simply be released:
https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/german-government-wants-to-pay-failed-afghan-asylum-seekers-to-leave/
In other words, come to Germany for a free hand out so that you can go back to your homeland with what amounts to a small fortune by local standards. That’s not about to encourage people to travel to Germany, of course.
Tattoo them before they are exported.
Giving them ‘start-up money’ simply means they will return under a different name. Today I am from Syria, tomorrow I am from Afghanistan …
“Angela Merkal’s astounding open border policy granting close to a million Muslim immigrants entry into Germany could be seen as self-flagellation for Germany’s historical transgressions. Laced with typical progressive lunacy. What better way to make up for the Holocaust than by admitting “refugees” who frequently exhibit genocidal hatred of Jews.”
From Gad Saad‘s book The Parasitic Mind
I like Gad Saad. He always nails it and is very astute. Well the people smugglers and NGOs working together certainly have a nice little earner going on when it comes to transporting ( *not* rescuing ) the migrants to our shores. This guy’s made quite the project of tracking them but there’s loads of others, nothing will ever get done despite the evidence of illegal activities because we know where the orders are coming from;
”The French NGO Médecins Sans Frontières has done it again. On Wednesday one of the most active smugglers in the Zuara area (Libya) offered a boat to go to Europe illegally (picture on the right) and coincidentally the GeoBarents boat stopped yesterday (Thursday) just 39 nautical miles off the Libyan coast, in front of Zuara. They have picked up almost 140 illegal immigrants.
The smuggler has a closed WhatsApp group with more than 800 members (I am one of them). There they publish the success of their trips and offer their services with a minimum of 4,500 dollars per illegal trip to #Europe.
Now they talk about “international waters”. But at no time have they been in the middle of the Central Mediterranean and happened to find a ship in distress. They have gone straight into the area of Libyan smugglers’ activity!
Is this enough to make it clear that this NGO is providing a service to Libyan smugglers? Is this enough to make it clear once and for all that these NGOs are creating a pull factor for these criminals? Pleaser comment and share this information.”
https://x.com/rubnpulido/status/1827043201737486602
I would support the British Government paying “our” criminal migrants to leave … providing their fingerprints and DNA are taken and if they ever find their way back here they will have no legal ability to reclaim asylum and are immediately deported back to the country they were returned to.
The offer should be open for a limited period for all of them who are already here, say 6 months, and then close.
I don’t usually condone rewarding criminals in this way, but we are already rewarding them via the asylum farce and this would be the cheaper option.
It’s the only way. Unfortunately, no politician has the guts to do it, and the blob would block it.
The problem with these “Asylum Seekers” supposedly fleeing persecution is that once they come here they often want to bring the medieval clutter they left behind with them. I do not care about “Return Agreements”. The human garbage should be stuck on a plane and dumped back from where they came. Become European or F Off back to the shit hole you supposedly hate so much
The solution that Germany’s rulers – like all those of Western European states with high and rapid immigration – is to administer ‘Soma’. That is, the bland, generic statements and tweets, otherwise known by disaster recovery advisers as ‘anaesthetic for the community’.
Unfortunately, anaesthetic is neither medicine nor food.
Both Germany and Britain have come far since the old days. Before the Great War, farm colonies had been established throughout Germany to provide work for unemployed and destitute men. The inhabitants were strictly vetted to exclude ‘wastrels and criminals’, and those admitted had to pledge to abstain from alcohol.
One of these colonies for German speakers living in England was established at Libury Hall, Ware, Hertfordshire in 1900 and operated under same strict regime. In the first five years over 2,400 men had been successfully helped to return to a profitable life or to return to Germany. The authorities who administered the Hall were adamant that the public should in no way give money to beggars as this would only make them professionals and make money a curse for them, not a blessing.
When there was increasing alarm over the numbers of undocumented foreigners coming into the country before 1914, and especially after the 1908 Tottenham Outrage, and again in the late 1930s, the success of the Hall was held up to dispel concern. Today, all that Yvette can promise is to stop the ‘chaos’ in the immigration system. That’s just the ‘chaos’, note. Nothing else.
I’m a bit dumb, so let me get this right: About 80 years ago, the German state annihilated several million of their own citizens, who were talented, hard working and peaceful people and assimilated quite happily into German society.
Then, in order to compensate for this, in recent years they imported several millions of largely hostile and often violent and dangerous people who have a strong sense of entitlement and a grudge against their hosts and no intention of assimilating into German society.
Oh and they also hate the victims of the events 80 years ago.
Is that a fair summary?
And don’t forget these imports are largely ( as I understand it, anyway ) unskilled, therefore being a burden on society and a drain on the economy, not an asset. I watched this 6min video and failed to see even one female in this extremely large group of migrants from Africa. The NGOs must be raking it in. This is from a Spanish political analyst, sharing the plight of Spain and what the rest of Europe can expect as they’re dispersed around the continent. The Soros plan going great guns;
”This is happening in my country, Spain!
It happened today, at Tenerife airport (Canary Islands). The government is sending hundreds of illegal immigrants by plane from the Spanish islands to the country’s capital. From there they will be distributed by region and soon they will be dispersed all over Europe.
Since October last year it has sent to Madrid more than 30,000 illegal immigrants who had arrived in the Canaries from Senegal, Mauritania, Gambia, Mali and even Morocco. They are all ending up in France (most of them), Germany, Holland, Ireland or the UK.
Our problem is your problem. This year, more than 70,000 illegal immigrants are expected to arrive in the Canary Islands. The government is creating a pull factor without historical precedent and Spain is becoming the biggest gateway for illegal immigration in Europe.”
https://x.com/rubnpulido/status/1827660184929370461
How do you do background checks on people with no documents? How are they to be allowed to assimilate into society when people can’t even check if they’re adults or minors, let alone dangerous criminals or terrorists? But this is what they do when making the crossing, then they’ll arrive and try and pass themselves off as <17yrs old. They shouldn’t even be allowed into the country if they’ve no I.D, especially when it’s so simple to check if a country is currently a warzone or not. What is their excuse? They lost their documents but managed to keep hold of their new mobile phones?;
”That’s right. That’s the way things are. They don’t arrive undocumented because they have fled in terror from a war. They arrive undocumented because during the crossing they throw all their identification into the sea. And Spain accepts this, immigrants without identity and without a criminal record. Then what happens, happens.”
https://x.com/rubnpulido/status/1827254108920717721
It’s highly likely very few of the imports will speak German so may well not be able to do low skilled jobs, more burden. Most of them are probably men and once settled will bring over their wives and children who are likely to be even less skilled/educated, yet more burden.
No. There hasn’t been something like a souvereign German state since 1945, just a bunch of mostly autonomous reservations for ethnic Germans forcibly settled there from all over eastern Europe. Further, most of the claimed victims of the Holocaust weren’t German but from the occupied territories in the East. Lastly, it’s not “the German state” which supposedly did this but the people who had taken control of it in 1933 as this was one of their political agendas.
Interesting that the German media is happy to name the murderer, his nationality and his religion while the usual suspects in the UK can’t bring themselves to tell the truth.
I understand Germany has transparency laws requiring them to disclose such details
The world is diverse …. and has NEVER been free from war, conflict, tribal enmities and feuds, many of them linked to religion.
So quite why the Globalists and their puppet politicians thought destroying peaceful, cohesive societies in the west by forcibly making them diverse would result in a Kum By Ya World is beyond me.
Still, it was useful to have this violent individual demonstrate so clearly the clear link between middle eastern/Muslim asylum seekers and the rapid increase in murders, usually with a knife, across the western countries which have taken them in.
I’m sure Keir Stalin will have instructed Two-Tier-Plod and the British Judiciary to come down hard on any white working class person who dares to join up the dots.
I see even very left wing politicians and party’s now are calling for no more of this human trash to be allowed into Germany. But is it too late? Why have the Political Class done this to us?
I recently read starmer is about to unleash all the illegal boat people now in private accommodation. Is that an intelligent move mr. Starmer. will you be held accountable in the event of a similar stabbing event in Cornell, Devon, somerset? Perhaps you could tell the country what your exact plans for disbursement of these people is.